Goderdzi Chokheli: 'The Sorrows of Human Beings'

Goderdzi Chokheli was a novelist, scriptwriter, and film director. Born in the village Chokhi in then - Soviet Georgia, he graduated from Tbilisi State Theatre Institute in 1979, and debuted in cinema in 1978. Along with making very successful films, he also authored several novellas and collections of stories such as Letter to Fir-trees, Twilight Gorge, People Melancholy, Wolf, Fish's Letters, Priest’s Sin, Keep me Motherland, Pursuer Fate, Going to Heaven, and The Life of the Grass.